Re: Error trying to run apt-get

Hi,

That doesn't work either, everything I do first tries to upgrade debianutils, which fails on this passwd package the same way. Originally I was attempting to upgrade the kernel when I got this error.

(Reading database ... 38049 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debianutils 2.8.4 (using .../ debianutils_2.21_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debianutils ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ debianutils_2.21_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/add-shell', which is also in package passwd
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing:  /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.21_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

# cat /etc/debian_version
lenny/sid

Thanks again

On Jul 2, 5:50 am, "Karl E. Jorgensen" <k...@jorgensen.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:00:58AM -0000, Adam wrote:
> > Was wondering if anyone has a workaround for this problem other than
> > uninstalling and reinstalling. I'm trying to upgrade a package and
> > get this error. The software involved doesn't seem to be one that I
> > can uninstall without uninstalling a bunch of things I'd rather not
> > uninstall to reinstall. See error at the bottom of this upgrade
> > command. The same happens when I just try an install. Any ideas
> > would be greatly appreciated. I've tried to touch a 777 file for /usr/
> > sbin/add-shell but I still get that error. I pretty much can't run
> > any upgrade, I get the same error. I try the upgrade by itself then
> > on debianutils.
>
> > # uname -a
> > Linux xena 2.6.7-1-386 #1 Thu Jul 8 05:08:04 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> 2.6.7 is somewhat old now, but should be OK...
>
> Which release are you running? Feels like sarge...
>
> > # apt-get upgrade
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > The following packages have been kept back:
>
> [snip lots of apt-get output]
>
>
>
> > Need to get 0B/37.8MB of archives.
> > After unpacking 16.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
> > Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> > Preconfiguring packages ...
> > (Reading database ... 38049 files and directories currently
> > installed.)
> > Preparing to replace debianutils 2.8.4 (using .../
> > debianutils_2.21_i386.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement debianutils ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/
> > debianutils_2.21_i386.deb (--unpack):
> > trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/add-shell', which is also in package
> > passwd
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.21_i386.deb
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> The debianutils and passwd packages both contain the file
> /usr/sbin/add-shell, which is what the package manager complains about.
>
> This is not a permissions problem - but the package manager complaining.
>
> Looks like a bug in either debianutils or passwd: Debian policy says
> that if they want to have the same file, they should declare that they
> conflict with eachother. Or at least one of them should declare that.
>
> You might get somewhere with:
> apt-get install passwd
>
> to upgrade the passwd package first - the current passwd package in etch
> does not supply that file (but depends on debianutils which in turn does
> supply it...)
>
> Hope this helps
>
> --
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